Joe Maddon

I was so grateful it took me so long to become a major league manager.

you know, because I observed everything.

And I regret that I don't have the experience that our managers

Yeah, I mean, that's the honest-to-God truth.

I mean, I saw from so many different angles.

Being a minor league roving instructor was very helpful, too.

Just going from town to town.

Every five, six days, you go to a different city, see a different manager of yours, see a different manager of theirs on the other side.

And I was always observing what was going on with these managers and how they handled situations.

So that's part of it also.

So by the time I get to the major leagues, like I said, I know what I know.

I knew...

I would give you examples.

If you pointed out different situations, I'd give you an example.

I would recall situations where that's where I learned this from, and that's why I was able to process it the way I did.

That's the experience component of it that we were just talking about, the control versus experience, the empowerment versus control.

I mean, I learned all that stuff.

So when we got to different situations, I swear to you, I don't even know.

This is not like a bragging kind of a comment.

I don't know.